The Most Important Issues In the 2008 Election

John Piper offers three things to consider as we contemplate the upcoming elections.

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[kachetil]

first of all noboby know if heaven exist!couse nobody turn buck to say!second if i go in heaven of christians,i also have to go in hell of all the ather relligion!third what makes you feel that humans are inteligent?!we destroy the earth the animals,our home!and our selfs!why someone want to suicid is an inteligent!thers nothink special with human kind!and god know this!we just afraid to died and we have a syndrome of complex of who we are!

[Candy9355]

This is the TRUTH!

[GabrielGZNH]

""Higher Intelligence" is used for survival? Our conversation is helping you survive? Did Bach's music allow us to live longer? Did Leonardo's paintings keep us alive? "

Yes, conversations help you survive. Being an intelligent person will help you survive and compete in human society. Being creative is not only where we get music and art from, it is where we get invention, and conflict solution.

You don't think animals which could think critically and creatively would have any advantage?

[GabrielGZNH]

"Take a bird (or any other animal) and trace it back to a single cell organism using reverse Darwinism with fossil records. The stages of development are hybrid species. You'll find that you can't do that"

Yes, you can trace birds or any animal backward in the fossil record.. You can also prove genetically that we and every living thing on this Earth are related.. And you would know that if you watched the video I sent you yesterday. "The 10th foundational falsehood of creationism"

[GabrielGZNH]

Any evidence of the supernatural would be proof.. The bible clearly predicting an event like an earth quake (something which could not be a self fulfilling prophecy) would be evidence.. Creation myth being confirmed by scientific study, not refuted by would be evidence..

Being open minded should not require you to close your eyes to the world around you.

[hylion527]

I have looked into several other religions and Christianity is the only one I haven't found flaws in.

Really though, if you're so close minded to religion, there isn't anything that anyone is going to say that is going to help you figure it out. Until you're ready to hear, you'll be deaf.

[hylion527]

Take a bird (or any other animal) and trace it back to a single cell organism using reverse darwinism with fossil records. The stages of development are hybrid species. You'll find that you can't do that.

"Higher Intelligence" is used for survival? Our conversation is helping you survive? Did Bach's music allow us to live longer? Did Leonardo's paintings keep us alive?

[GabrielGZNH]

As for intelligence.. Intelligence, is what human beings use to keep themselves alive.. Our intelligence evolved the same as any other species, and is still evolving.. Humans are hardly the only intelligent animal, we are just the most intelligent animal..

Supernatural means outside or not natural.. That means it can not be explained or tested through natural processes.. If prophecy is proof of anything than there are about 1000 other religions and fortune tellers you should look into..

[GabrielGZNH]

Hybrid of what? New species don't come from a combination of two distinct species.. Speciation is what happens when 1 species becomes 2 after a population becomes too genetically distinct...

So for example if you had a species of goat separated by a mountain, the population on one side would not be able to breed with the population on the other side.. Variations built up over time would make the two populations so different, that they would no longer be able to interbreed. That's speciation.